https://twitter.com/comradekimdawn/status/1537417108421758976

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    We have a majority on the court that seems to believe anything not explicitly stated in the dogshit US constitution should be reversed. At this point I wouldn't be shocked if they said the EPA and National Parks are unconstitutional and must be handled exclusively by the states.

        • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          That assumes that the originalists are consistent or genuinely believe in originalism, but they unfortunately do not

          • ssjmarx [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            What you really need is an executive branch that tells the courts to take a walk. If they can't enforce their decisions, it doesn't matter how bad they are.

            • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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              2 years ago

              Not saying that wouldn't rock, but the executive ignoring the courts explicitly would lead to the collapse of the government and probably some kind of coup.

              • HodgePodge [love/loves]
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                2 years ago

                They’ve already done that in the past and the country is still here. :shrug-outta-hecks:

                • RamsFan [none/use name]
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                  2 years ago

                  Andrew Jackson was way more intimidating and uncivil than basically any modern American politician tho, especially :biden-troll: .

        • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          The Origins of judicial review is a case about the legitimacy of judicial review brought before the Supreme Court. Which is so funny.

        • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Only good thing Andrew Jackson ever said as far as I can tell is "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it."

          • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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            2 years ago

            I also uphold Jackson caning and shooting fellow politicians over minor disagreements.

            We really need to bring back that good old American spirit of beating the shit out of each other back to capital hill.

          • HodgePodge [love/loves]
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            2 years ago

            wasn’t that in response to the courts telling him the trail of tears was illegal and he had to stop commiting genocide

    • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      They have a 6-3 majority on SCOTUS and probably Republicans will win in 2022 and 2024. The GOP was slow and methodical before, now they are just going for it.

      • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        what's the point in debating about accelerationism in the abstract when they're shooting missiles at the goddamn pedal. :this-is-fine:

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      EPA and National Parks are unconstitutional and must be handled exclusively by the states.

      Those dirty commies Nixon and Wilson

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      At this point I wouldn’t be shocked if they said the EPA

      They've de facto said this about the EPA already. I believe the EPA is no longer allowed to use their own expertise and can only control substances in the water and air explicitly listed by congress and levels explicitly listed by congress. Or something along those lines.

        • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I guess its expected soon: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00618-1

          I believe the case is about carbon, but I imagine the ruling will give legal justification that on a long enough time scale the conservative Supreme court can slowly chip away at the EPA. I mean that's not exactly crazy, it's what they did with abortion rights.

    • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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      2 years ago

      A federal court ruled like a month ago that Congress didn't have the power to delegate regulatory authority to agencies like the SEC. So we're already most of the way there, just need to let that case filter up to SCOTUS

    • Lundi [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      can SOTUS precedence that things are unconstitutional be used to prove that the SOTUS is unconstitutional?